17:610:553 DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Tefko Saracevic, Michael Lesk
Fall 2002

Assignment 9

Security and privacy

Readings:

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/spaf/presents/Top12.pdf
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html
And in
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/

read the following items:
"Where we stand one year later"
"Smile, you're on in-store camera"
"Feds Open Total Tech Spy System"

Assignment:

Write one page (roughly) each on the following questions:

• Should there be a freely accessible website with all criminal records on it?
• Should the police/FBI have access to all web searches?
• If we could use face recognition on all video cameras in public places and accumulate a database of who went where, should we? If yes, should it be accessible to everyone or only the police?

M. Lesk